Prof. dr. ir. Nele De Belie

Nele De Belie is professor in Durability of Cement Bound Materials at Ghent University (UGent). She is technical director of the Magnel Laboratory for Concrete Research and in charge of the calibration department.

She is laureate of different best paper prizes and awards in recognition of her scientific work. She is supervisor of several Ph.D. and M.Sc. students. She is chair or member of several national and international scientific committees and author of more than 200 publications in journals and conference proceedings. Furthermore she regularly acts as reviewer for about 20 different scientific journals.

Research group of Nele De Belie: “Concrete and environment” – November 2013

Nele De Belie was also advisor for “Science and Innovation” of the Flemish Minister of Economy, Enterprise, Science, Innovation and Foreign Trade, in 2005 - 2009

Scientific career

Research Assistant of the Research Foundation – Flanders (FWO – Vlaanderen) at the Biosystems Engineering Department of Ghent University from 01-10-1993 to 30-09-1997. Ph.D. Research project: “Concrete technological and chemical aspects of floor degradation in pig houses”

Postdoctoral Researcher of the Research Foundation – Flanders (FWO – Vlaanderen) at the Department Agro-technology and Economy of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (KULeuven) from 01-10-1997 to 30-09-2000. Research project: “Mechanical properties of cells and tissues related to fruit texture”

BBSRC Young Engineer Reward for the best paper presented at the AgEng2000 International Conference, Warwick, 2-7 July 2000

Armand Blanc Prize for the paper presented at the XIV Memorial CIGR World Congress, Tsukuba, Japan, 28 November - 1 December 2000

Rewarded as the best paper of the session TT3 “Innovative materials and products for durability”, at the 10th International Conference on Durability of Building Materials and Components (10dbmc), Lyon, 17-20 April 2005

The paper Baert, G., De Belie, N., De Schutter, G. (2010). A multi-compound model for the hydration of Portland cement – fly ash binders (Second international conference on Sustainable construction materials and technologies, Ancona, Italy, 31 May - 3 June 2010), was selected by the Award Committee as outstanding paper out of 260 manuscripts.